circa 120,000 BCE — The people later to be known as Indigenous Australians first arrive in Australia
In the traditions of the Indigenous Australian peoples, their ancestors were created with the land, at the dawn of what...
September 9, 2024
The Past
circa 2,300,000 BCE — The ancestors of humanity leave the trees
The earliest known member of the genus Homo, habilis evolved on the savannah of Africa between 2.5 and 2 million...
October 4, 2024
circa 65,500,000 BCE — The Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction event wipes out the dinosaurs
Everyone loves the dinosaurs. A lot of people – if the Jurassic Park films are to be believed – would...
October 24, 2024
circa 243,000,000 BCE — The earliest dinosaurs evolve
There remains some question which dinosaur was actually the earliest of its kind. The oldest claimant is of the order...
November 12, 2024
circa 284,000,000 BCE — Bolosaurid Eudibamus is the first known biped
The earliest known bipedal vertebrate, eudibamus cursoris was a small parareptile. The sole specimen that has been found (in Thuringia,...
November 22, 2024
circa 335,000,000 BCE — The supercontinent Pangea forms
The supercontinent of Pangea was an agglomeration of all the existing continents, brought together by tectonic forces around 335 million...
November 27, 2024
circa 3,800,000,000 BCE — Autotrophic organisms evolve
The autotrophs are the first true organisms on the planet Earth. The very first of them, the first prokaryotic life...
December 17, 2024
circa 4,200,000,000 BCE — The Earth’s oceans form
The majestic oceans of planet Earth were formed neither quickly nor simply. It took literally millions of years between the...
December 22, 2024
circa 4,540,000,000 BCE — The Earth gets cooler
In the early millenia of what is sometimes referred to as the Hadean era of the Earth, there were no...
December 27, 2024
circa 13,700,000,000 BCE — The Big Bang
The short version: in the beginning, there was nothing, which then exploded. The longer version: all the matter in the...
January 1, 2025
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